the week's top stories from the u.s. has left all but isolated the vast majority of nations voted against the president decision to recognize. israel's capital that's triggered almost daily clashes in the region. these. extremely. top headlines boris johnson visits russia for the first time as british foreign secretary and although relations are at a low point at least try to break the ice something a bit of russian thank you very much to get you general so you. can meet me in my

teeth today. and new research reveals the u.s. led operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul from may have led to ten times more civilian deaths was initially claimed. even from oscar watching our teams and the life with me. you're very welcome on the program. well tension over jerusalem again dominated the news this week on thursday the u.s. was strongly rebuked by members of the united nations over its unilateral recognition of the city as israel's capital one hundred twenty eight states rejected president starts on the divided city that's the spot pressure and threats from u.s. officials. when we make a decision about where to locate our embassy we don't expect those we've helped to

target turns on thursday they'll be a vote criticizing our choice the us will be taking names. they take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars and then they vote against us while we're watching those votes let us vote against us will save a lot. of those in favor of the draft resolution please raise your hand. there's a gain. for team foods in favor of votes against the united states will remember this day in which it was singled out for attack in the general assembly for the very act of exercising our right as a sovereign nation america will put our embassy in jerusalem no vote in the united

nations will make any difference somebody will now take a decision. or use of the veto obstructed the security council and made unable to perform his duties and do decades of work of the international community it is considered a blatant violation of the rights of comes to be fought must be resolved through negotiation between the two parties are un members very threatening all the other members this is bullying and this john boehner will not bow to the road out.

thank. you now even countries that often disagree on major issues joined voices through condemn the u.s. move on jerusalem some examples rivals saudi arabia iran also india and pakistan came together at the general assembly some geopolitical experts we've heard from say america's bullying tactics undermine the structure of the united nations think it's unfortunate that the united states finds itself under this kind of leadership which is undermining the standing of this country internationally if countries acquiesce to the us and if they accept being punching bag for the american administration and voting in accordance with directives from nikki haley then

what's the point of having the united nations i think we all know. a new era in which a major. resort to blackmail and bribery or you can see if your votes in the general assembly this is the first occasion on which state to create a major. member of the security council has resorted to such measure it's i do think that it will be good to or believe the united states will have to carry through threats of this kind because they're called indicator states in future situations or give them a vote against you know if you slate they do so. languorous still being felt in the palestinian territories with clashes in gaza and the west bank for a third week in a row. you know one of the. it wasn't. that i.

wasn't positive that. was. the. truth of. god. i was sure. a lot of tension as you can see in the region and got reports for you now from our middle east correspondent paula she's actually on the ground in the west bank also gaza journalist hinde dari both witnessed just how tense things there have been. the situation here and extremely was go. out of breath because we've been running down the road now and. it's all just made

their way to the right in see them off to my left i'm a foreigner someone a citizen firing tear gas and everybody's been running amok the streets are rich and. the soldiers are just you know to hear us that's. all the way into the pit. you can hear the ambulances so they certainly will be the sheep who has been in. and at the same time adjusting my coming over to the back of the posse from here exactly what's going on but. we've taken proper we've taken cover in a way in a petrol station. going out of the into the trees and when farmers how they can now who are sick. and. we're standing right over here you can see that there's

a number of injured people you can see the instance are carrying people with them you can see the israeli tanks that which in the last few minutes just made their way up the road to emmaus and see the tree saying also from allah but they really have come all the way in now so. now. let's look at. today's day of rage that has been called for by various palestinian factions is well and truly underway there are youngsters who have been here for the better part of the last hour has been hurling rocks and pavements at these waiting soldiers who speaks only been inching their way closer they've been filing tear gas in the stomach cell is still quite a strong smell of tear gas that is hanging over us. the

protesters and demonstrators come here today for the third friday raids and yet this friday was different other than the two fridays people were very close to the fence this time and we this our very important leader actor and polluted shins and activist joining the civilians there during the protests as you see there are at least five ambulances waiting for any injury and ready to pick them up there are still hundreds of them protesters as you can hear we can hear live bullets i think there is another another injury right now and they're actually throwing gas bombs on the demonstrators as you can see despite all of the blood of bullets despite all the gas bombs despite all the rebel berlitz ballasting protesters whether in god's are the west bank already jerusalem our city protesting are still demonstrating people are search pressing their anger. now boris johnson has visited

moscow for the first time in his role as britain's foreign secretary the trip comes with relations between the two states are pretty much historic low elop franco was following johnson's meeting with his russian counterpart. well we hadn't seen a u.k. foreign secretary in moscow for five years and i can tell you that i hadn't seen such a remarkable press conference at the foreign ministry villa behind me for a long time there were many jokes many ways to poke each other not necessarily in a bad way after listing all the essential topics that are usual for such talks ranging from north korea to ukraine russia and the theories that it meddled and the votes all around the world and the u.k. as well came up once before just to remind you the foreign secretary boris johnson said that he hadn't seen any evidence of russian interference he even used the

words not a sausage well mr johnson seems to have changed his mind today he said that he hadn't seen any evidence of successful attempts to interfere and i asked boris johnson to elaborate on that a little bit there was a mass on the free abundant evidence of. russian interference in the elections in. germany. from. america but as i say there is new evidence of any successful russian interference. in the u.k. other highlights of the press conference included boris johnson speaking russian a few times saying that he has committed to fall in response to another question by me the u.k. foreign secretary confirmed that once he was in tehran a couple of weeks ago he visited the russian embassy secretly to see the venue of

the famous tehran conference during the second world war he was also asked about moscow travel advice that he received from one of the british m.p.'s which included warnings about drinking challenge again. and honey traps many other things so the question was about trust and the question was about whether he had encountered any of these threats so far in the russian capital. but i want you to know it's a measure of my of my trust. soon as i got into this exit from a loose try mediately handed my coat my hand my gloves and indeed everything that was in my pocket secret or otherwise to sergei lavrov in the knowledge that he would look after it. would come to the low harm more than just a few times boris johnson reminded of the differences in the views that london and

moscow have on various international issues it seemed that he really felt it was essential to keep talking about this every time he said something positive about russia but at the end of the day the common message was from both top diplomats that dialogue needs to prevail. and certainly a joint news conference with foreign minister lavrov boris johnson also tried out a little bit of russian language as well. i'm sure i'm in a rush so far in the middle of a committee process but. the diplomatic relationship that is four hundred fifty years old dates from the time when queen elizabeth sent an envoy to ivan the terrible right on the fourth. i'm certain that i'm the first foreign secretary in the history of my own to be cool for it. i should customers as i

said earlier one of buying. british things from a few cattle crisps to please. somebody has just given me a. good there on the sleeve gives a little stew that you get i guess that's the fs. so when it comes to trust the trust poorest and trust him so much i'm ready for it but plenty of money. thank you very much so get your generosity the hospitality of welcoming me in my tea today specifically bolshoi. well the british foreign secretary also visited red square there as you can see. most famous landmarks he and his team also laid flowers at the tomb of the. second world war memorial right next to the kremlin during the war britain and the soviet union while i was of course they fought together against nazi germany riots around broadcaster married to jesse

thinks johnson's visit will eventually bring positive results but only with time. you can see maybe some glimmer of hope on the horizon just in terms of the sort of growing report that the seem to be at that meeting between boris johnson and sick enough but i also think that the thing that is anything positive that's going to come out of that seriously will only emerge in time i think boris johnson is going to come back to london he's going to say you know i really put it to the russians i didn't give an inch. and then be with time that we'll see another visit maybe we'll have a reciprocal visit. maybe just maybe things will start to unfreeze but then you know i'm an optimist and we're coming up to new year so his hope. coming up in just a few by which the deposed former president is hailing another win off the pro

independence parties gain a majority in catalonia weekly continues just after this break. is a civilization just a tiny bit more advanced than we are they can already pick up jerry springer or any other. interview shows the nightly news they see what we're doing to our planet you know it isn't really a very pretty picture and so in addition to this chaotic messages that we use to communicate with one another we want to send a clear signal to the f. but there's also some rationality of. the w one the idea that dropping bombs brings us to the chicken or forcing you to buy the battle. to start to try to tell you that because of the public.

eye as you call it by. the. we all know what. welcome back to the weekly here on r.t. international independence parties in the spanish region of catalonia secured a majority in thursday's snap election that's a pretty big blow to the central government in madrid state of course hope to diffuse the independence crisis have been denounced october's referendum and sacking local leaders allow though the deposed former president is hailing another victory i want to congratulate the catalan people because they have sent a message to the world catalan republic has beaten the monarchy in article one fifty five the spanish day has been beaten. i.

think that the right. word for this movement. let's take a look now at the results how they are reflected in the castle and parliament the probably dependence parties took seventy of the one hundred thirty five seats available the pro unionist citizens party they did actually win the election by a small margin in terms of overall vote share all that sort of off to form a coalition capable of actually governing now the results left the spanish prime minister clearly disappointed. we need those who want to show you. really. don't know who we're not come from to get settled in council you know about a back in october madrid rejection of the castle and independence referendum was not only characterized by political pressure also by the use of police force

against voters leading up to one thousand injured. holy people. this is not the first people to be heard and taken from here by so i think from the early hours of the morning it seems like the federal government and the media. tools in their toolbox they've used violence. media demonization they are trying to.

be trying to go out. on this t.v. station simply calling. calling the president a president acts i don't and i don't know what other tools they have no just by trying to use all of these tools don't just want to be extraordinary wrong i took my this is i. the u.s. led operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul from i saw may have killed up to ten times more civilians than previously thought that's according at least the research by the associated press the news agency obtained data from iraq you morgues as well as non-governmental organizations it says as many as eleven thousand civilians may have been killed during the nine month operation in a third of these were said to have died during bombing raids the coalition only acknowledges three hundred twenty six civilian deaths must international has joined calls to investigate the liberation campaign and for the true cost in civilian deaths to be revealed but our correspondent visited the city both during and all.

after the operation. to see the presses bodycount surprise anyone who's actually been to mosul and who has seen what has happened to the city you can also argue that the death count that they've given become outdated already hours after they released their report we got a cool from mosul from rescuers there saying that three more children had been killed when an explosive device buried in the wreckage of a house that they were paying on dead today to ease explosions happen almost every day rescuers tell us and this is a direct consequence of the battle of mosul itself nevertheless the body count is a semi official milestone in the in and of itself because the numbers we previously had from official sources from the u.s. led coalition the rockies even the un was a tenth of that barely

a thousand civilians realistic number the associated press found that three to four thousand of those civilians killed in mosul died to ash strikes carried out by the u.s. led coalition and the iraqi air force the u.s. led coalition had previously claimed responsibility for no more than three hundred or so civilian deaths saying that it didn't have the resources to send investigators to look at every reported incident susi the press didn't always numbers out of a hat they cited various human rights agencies as well as an official body count counts that monitored events in mosul as well as with tip offs from iraq he moves but as i say this number is i'm surprised if you've been to move slowly and see what a city of two million his been tending to injuries and corpses. this is the reality of war what you will likely haven't heard of is this. smell it's

noisy aging repulsive and it's everywhere the sort of smell that makes us in stink sick the smell of rotting bodies this is what rescuers have collected just this morning three suspected isis fighters two women and two children. that's in iraq. launching missiles. at isis targets in and you can hear isis small arms fire. the helicopter and over the six seven hundred meters away is the aftermath of an extract that hit minutes ago just before

we got here this was a city of two million that had been. annihilated during the nine months of the battle of mosul the rescue as we talked to tell us that the city the city the old city of mosul that bore the brunt of the fighting in the devastation it still reeks of decaying bodies thousands and thousands of corpses still buried under rubble mixed with them or explosive devices that continue to claim people's lives. so we have time for for this hour do join us. time for more headlines from around the world see that.

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dark. blue and welcome to worlds apart but less than two months to go until the peeling chung olympics the participation of athletes from russia remains shrouded in controversy that mission criteria have been sad the international olympic committee has drawn up a whole manual on how the sporting uniforms should look like but what awaits the russian ellyn p.m.'s in south korea and most importantly after to discuss that i'm now joined by the champs russia strip will jump gold medalist at the ninety nine to five world indoor championship in barcelona. it's great to talk to you thank you

very much for your time. first of all let's talk about the latest developments of the international paralympic committee said it was maintaining its suspension of the russian paralympic committee to make the final decision on whether the russians can compete against twenty winter games in january but i think it's called this little paralympic athletes are in a tougher situation than the caskets from russia is can spot why do you think that . shouldn't they be treated in the same ways since one top human the world anti-doping agency reports started the whole thing where do these differences in conclusions and policies come from. agree the treatment is very different as you remember our paralympic athletes were banned from the rio games which is very strange because team russia competed in the olympics well but without the track and field athletes you see for some reason our paralympic athletes have to deal with very harsh requirements and the like and parrot dance and other sports when the russians were banned or stripped of their medals those that the it goes without

saying that it is simply inhumane these people have already suffered enough because of their life circumstances and now they have to face even more trials with the sanctions that it is but that it was. at the post michel and it is just inhumane clearly people who do such things have no god in their hearts i have no explanation for this but my guess is that they are threatened by russian athletes especially in track and field and in winter sports as well the russian paralympic athletes are in a higher category they have more experience and they deliver better results than paralympic teams from other countries on. board and if so there is probably pressure on the international paralympic committee because the russians simply win too many medals more than in the regular olympics not in one basket maybe that's the reason it was a yeah you know i've heard comments from foreign paralympic athletes but in a piece of any on the old south don't even understand the current guidelines

because of course have to be sick with disabilities who are on some kind of america including the ones that they used to treat their condition let's put it this way in the mckinney cine what do you say if there are clear criteria for what is considered performance enhancing drugs do you realize what's allowed and who is allowed to take thousands of what was used there any kind of. better to throughout the crowd to chill with us but my god who should know there is no clarity there has never been any clarity on the issue and there will be no clarity but that the space of you know for everybody who watches our program today can find the list of performance enhancing drugs online than they did with the war and it will drive them crazy doesn't it national but they're quoting to the list is that every living person should be disqualified forever they sue nothing is a lot. all your regular medical drugs are on the list.